Baja Mining Corp. announces that it has notified the Toronto Stock Exchange that it will voluntarily delist the Company’s securities from trading on the TSX and that it has applied to the TSX Venture Exchange to obtain a Tier 2 listing. The Company’s goal is to work with the TSX and the TSXV to coordinate the transition of the Company’s listing between the two exchanges and to ensure that trading in its securities will continue uninterrupted. The TSXV’s consideration of the Company’s listing application is in progress, and the Company will provide an update on the status of its application upon completion of the TSXV’s review.

El Tigre Silver Corp. is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement of an aggregate of 6,000,000 units of the Company for aggregate gross proceeds of $1,500,000. Each Unit consists of a common share of the Company and one-half of a common share purchase warrant. Each whole Warrant entitles the holder to acquire an additional common share of the Company for a period of 24 months from the date of issue at a price of $0.38 per share, provided that, if over a period of 20 consecutive trading days after the expiry of the hold period on the warrants, the daily volume weighted average trading price of the common shares of the Company on the TSX Venture Exchange (or such other stock exchange on which such shares are listed) is greater than $0.50, then at the Company’s discretion, it may, within 10 days of such 20 day period, accelerate the expiry date of the Warrants to a date 30 days after the date of the notice.

Fourth quarter gold production was a record 769,000 ounces at all-in sustaining cost of $810 per ounce driven by great operating results at Peñasquito and Red Lake as well as higher throughput at Pueblo Viejo. Our operation for excellence continues improvement initiative (indiscernible) also contributed significantly to bringing down our overall cost as we gained efficiency and productivity improvements across all of our sites.

Teck Resources Ltd. reported a $232-million profit in the fourth quarter but said its revenue in the last three months of 2013 was cut by sharp declines in metal and coal prices.

Shares of Freyja Resources surged over 25% on Thursday after the company announced the results from its initial sampling program completed last year on its Las Cristinas copper-silver project, which it is planning to take to production by the end of 2014.

Goldcorp Inc. reported a US$1.1-billion loss in the fourth quarter due to a big tax charge in Mexico and other one-time charges.